“Trying to deflect attention from the White House invading people’s privacy, the Democratic National Committee is making real news by admitting flag@whitehouse.gov was used to collect data on people being turned in by third parties.”

The problem isn’t that the White House was collecting data on people who knowingly leave their names and contact information, typically because they want to be contacted. Most websites do that and anyone who leaves personal information is aware of it. The problem is that the White House was collecting information about people who, without their knowledge, were being reported by someone else.

Presumably we will now see mass outrage from the left and the nobly expressed objections of the liberal media. The NYT will no doubt lead tomorrow with a front page, above the fold story and an editorial. Pundits will go on MSNBC to sputter. Keith Olbermann will name the entire WH as “The Worst Person in The World”. Nancy will organize angry hearings in the House. The administration will be made to pay a price in public trust by the combined outrage of Congress and the MSM. Constitutional questions will be raised by the Justice Department, and there will be talk of bringing Fitzgerald back to D.C as a Special Prosecutor. All that will happen, no doubt.

“How many hoarders and wreckersevildoers falsehood-spreaders have you identified via the flag@whitehouse.gov email address, and what is the Administration doing with this information? Are dossiers being compiled and if so, how many and who has access to them?”

What does it take to get an investigation into this snitch site by Congress? Can’t the Republicans force the issue? I’m serious. I know I like to joke around but why can we have some grandstanding hearings and call in the White House staff and ask them lots of questions. You know it has been done in the past.

Since you are asking people to report citizens who don’t agree with the health care plan currently in in Congress, let me do my part:

There is a guy i know well, an honorably discharged veteran with more than 17 years experience working in health care. He bad mouths Ear Leader’s brilliant plan to change the health-care system in America, mocking both the plan, and ‘The Won’, every chance he gets.

He points out the cost, the fact that neither Congress or the First Socialist have read the bill, and the fact that the public statements made by these incompetents fundamentally contradict each other as to the nature, goals and cost of the program. He even has the gall to question where the idea that health care is a right originates, and where it is justified.

That person is me, and I’m exercising my 1st Amendment rights, as noted in the US Constitution, when I do. The fact that you would attempt to chill my free speech by calling for people to report me is disgusting, but utterly expected of your ilk.

Allow me to fully express my utter and complete disdain for everyone who thought this was a good idea, starting with that ignorant idiot in the Oval Office, and all you fawning sycophants doing his illegal and immoral bidding, by contacting you to be put on the list that you are evidently compiling.

And yes, I fully expect to suddenly discover that something is wrong with my records, or that my files have gone missing, or whatever other petty bureaucratic punishment you may decide to meet out for the crime of Lèse majesté . You are scum, and that’s what scum does. I’m an American, and I take shit from on one, let alone some self aggrandizing, jumped up, would be third world tinpot dictator.

In closing, allow me to suggest, in the best tradition of the Infantry and the Cavalry, that both you and your president go have sexual intercourse with yourselves, using the most vulgar of terms.

Why is the DNC doing anything with a whitehouse.gov e-mail address ?Political activity in the White House is prohibited by the Hatch Act.
That’s why the DNC (or RNC) does that sort of activity off the premises.There is a big problem here if the DNC got anything that came in on the “flag” whitehouse.gov email line.

These federal and D.C. employees may not-
* use official authority or influence to interfere with an election
* solicit or discourage political activity of anyone with business before their agency
* solicit or receive political contributions (may be done in certain limited situations by federal labor or other employee organizations)
* be candidates for public office in partisan elections
* engage in political activity while
o on duty
o in a government office
o wearing an official uniform
o using a government vehicle
* wear partisan political buttons on duty

Why is the DNC doing anything with a whitehouse.gov e-mail address ?Political activity in the White House is prohibited by the Hatch Act.
That’s why the DNC (or RNC) does that sort of activity off the premises.There is a big problem here if the DNC got anything that came in on the “flag” whitehouse.gov email line.

I sent them that Monty Python Fishy thing from the Meaning of Life and a bunch of other “fishy” things. I also sent them links and copies of the privacy act that is supposed to protect us citizens from this very thing.

What’s to refute? Redstate noticed that third party information was in the flag emails? There’s no refuting that.

And you fail at reading comprehension.

What the DNC admitted was that e-mail addresses that were sent to flag@whitehouse.govby people who didn’t own the e-mail addresses were collected and used.

and it isn’t that he noticed it… it’s that the DNC admitted it. The DNC said that they used flag@whitehouse.gov to collect info on people that others ratted out.

Imagine if I sent your e-mail address to the RNC, and they used that to send you mis-informed spam (you know, like the DNC did with the addy’s sent to flag@whitehouse.gov). Now pretend I did it when Bush was in office, and that the system had been set up and run by WH staff.

What’s to refute? Redstate noticed that third party information was in the flag emails? There’s no refuting that.

Just curious about something, imdw, if you would be so kind to reply; do you think it is bad for the Executive Branch of the United States Government to start tracking the identities of American citizens for political reasons?

i sent a copy of all of my anti-marxist health suggestions to obama’s snitch email saying “i am flagging in myself so you don’t have to bother my friends.” as if that’s not bad enough…then obama’s people try to use their website to sell his marxist health plans ON 9/11 HISTORY! I have never seen a president SO SELFISH AND SO DETERMINED TO GET “HIS” WAY EVEN THOUGH AMERICANS HAVE WRITTEN, EMAILED,CALLED HIM AND TOLD HIM “NO.” OBAMA JAMMED THE STIMULUS BILL, OMNIBUS BILL, GM, BAILOUTS, CHRYSLER DOWN OUR THROATS!!!!!!!!!! STOP AND STOP NOW! Americans have had it!